The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-01

not lose his memory. Then there must be
millions of souls in heaven who know
Coronation, :" and Antioch and mount
Pisgah," and "Old Hundred" The leader
of the eternal orchestra need only once tap
his baton and all heaven will be ready for
the hallelujah.
Can not the soul sing? How often we
compliment some exquisite singer by say
ing: "There was so much soul in her music "
In heaven it win be all soul until the body
after while comes up in the resurrection
and then there will be an additional heaven.
| Can not the soul hears Ii it can hear then it
can hear music Do not, therefore, let it be
in your household when some member
leaves for heaven as it is in some house
holds, that you close the piano and unstring
| the harp for two years, because the fingers
that used to play on them are still. You
must remember that they have better in
| Struments of music where they are.
You ask me: "Do they have real harps
and real tlumpets and real organsp l do
not know. Some wiseacres say positively
| there are no such things in heaven | do
not know, but should not be surprised IT
the God who made ali the mountains and
all tho hills and ell the forests and all the
metals of the earth and all the growths OF
the universe-I should not be surprised If
He could, if He had a mind to, make few
| harps and trumpets and organs.
Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out, was
carried for the last time into the music hall
and there he heard his own oratorio of the
Creation" History says that as the
orchestra came to that famous passage:
LET there be lightr' the whole audience
rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his
hand toward heaven and said: 1T comes
from there Overwhelmed with his own
music, he was carried out in his chair, and
as he came to the door he spread his hand
toward the orchestra as in benediction.
Haydn was right when he waved his hand
| toward heaven and said: 1T comes from
there Music was born in heaven and it
will ever have its highest throne i'll heaven
and | want you to understand that our de
parted friends who were passionately fond
of music here are now at the headquarters
church tunes that died when your grand
| fathers died have gone with them TO heaven.
Again, | remark that those of our de
| parted Christian friends who i'll this world
had very strong military spirit are now in
armies celestial and out on bloodlesS battle.
| There are hundreds of people born sol
dierS. They cannot help it. They belong
| to regiments in time of peace. They cannot
hear q drum or fife without trying to keep
step to the music. They are Christians, and
when they fight they fight on the right side.
! Now when these, our Christian friends who
| had natural and powerful military spirit,
entered heaven, they entered the celestial
army.
TIE door of heaven hardly opens, but you
| hear military demonstration. David cried
out: The chariots of God are 10000
Elisha saw the mountains filled with celes-
tlal cavalry st. John said: The armies
which are in heaven followed him on white
| horses Now, when those VIII had the
military spirit on earth -7nctft Y entered
glory, suppose they right away enlisted in
some heavenly campaign, they volunteered
| right away. There must needs be iii heaven
soldiers with a soldierly spirit. There are
| grand parade days when the King reviews
the troops. There must be armed escort
sent out to bring up from earth to heaven
| those who were more than conquerors
| There must be crusades ever being fitted ont
| for some part of Gods dominion-battles
bioodless, groanless, painless. Angels OF
| evil to be fought down and fought back,
| Other Tebellous worlds to be conquered
| Worlds TO be put to the torch. Worlds &c
b. saved Worlds TO be demolished Worlds
to be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted.
Beside that, in our own world there are
battles for the right and against the wrong
where we must have the heavenly military
| That is what keeps us Christian reforners
so buoyant. So few good men against sc
many bad men, SO few churches against &c
many grog-shops, SO few pure printing
presses against so many polluted printing
| presses; and yet we are buoyan6 and cour
ageous, because while we know that th,
armies of evil in the world are larger In
numbers than the army of the truth, there
are celestial cohorts in the air fighting OF
| our side.
have not so much faith in the army on
| the ground as have in the army in the
dir. o, Godl open our eyes that we may
see them. The military spirits that went
| up from earth to join The military spirits
| before tho thrOne--Joshua, and Caleb, and
Gideon, and David, and Samson, and tho
hundreds of Christian warriors who OF
earth fought with fieshly arm, and now
having gone up on high are coming down
the hills of heaven ready to fight among tie
invisibles. Yonder they are-coming com
ing. Did you not hear them as they swept
by.
But what are or mathematical friend
to do in the next worldi They found theil
Joy and their delight in mathematics. There
| was more poetry for them in Euclid than il
John Milton. They were as pasSonately
fond OF mathematics as Plato, who wroto
over his door: Let no one enter here who
is not acquainted with geometry" What
are they doing nowg They are busy with
figures yet. No place in all tie umversf
like heaven for figures. Numbers infinite
distances infinite, calculations infinite. The
didactic DR.. Dick said he really thought
that the redeemed in heaven spent some OF
their time with tile higher branches Of math
| ematics
Some of our transferred and transporeI
Neutrality-suspicious. What are they doing now
Studying the human mind only under bet
ter circumstances than they used TO study
it. They used TO study the mind sheathed
in the dull, human body. Now the
spirit unsheathed-now they are studying
the sword outside the scabbard. Have you
any doubt about what Sir William Hamil
ton is doing in heaven, or what Jonathar
Edwards Is doing in heaven or the multi
tudes on earth who had passion for meta
physics sanctiicd by the grace of Godl Nc
difficulty in guessing. Metaphysics, glo
rious metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing nowi Exploring
yet, but with lightning locomotion, witt
vision microscopic and telescope at the
same time. a continent at a glance.
| world in O second A planetary system IN
day. Christian John Franklin no more
IN disabled Erebus pushing toward th'
North Pole, Christian De Long no more
trying TO free blockaded Jeannctte from
the ice, Christian Livingstone no more
amid African malarias trying to makc
revelation of dark continent; but all d
them in the twinkling Of an eye taking IL
that which was unapproachablc. Mon
Blanc scaled without alpsnstock. The
coral depths of the ocean explored without
diving bell The mountains unbarred anc